SNL Masterfully Takes A Jab At Controversial Pepsi Commercial [VIDEO]

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Maybe Pepsi should have hired the writers and producers of SNL, then maybe they wouldn’t have ticked off, just about EVERYBODY.

On Wednesday, Pepsi announced that it would be pulling a controversial ad that was almost universally mocked for its portrayal of Kendall Jenner handing a police officer a soda during a protest. (original story here)

SNL did a masterful spoof of the commercial showing the “What Had Happened Was” moment that Pepsi, as far as the commercial goes, never recovered from.

Check out the SNL spoof and the original Pepsi commercial video here: